Hasbro denied Pixar the use of GI Joe in Toy Story when found that the GI Joe doll was going to be blown up by Sid.

Author J. K. Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in 1990 7 years before the release of the first book.

Sean Connery turned down roles in The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones 4 and Blade Runner.

The Alien series has a continuing obsession with alphabetising their androids chronologically. Ash, Bishop, Call. Could Michael Fassbender's David be an android in the upcoming Prometheus? SPOILER ALERT Yes. Although as it's a prequel it should really be Zeus or Zola or Zebedee.

Brad Pitt was banned from China for his role in the movie "7 Years in Tibet."

Alred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first American film to show a toilet flushing.

"Apollo 13" "Armageddon" and "Around the World in 80 Days" are among the movies NASA keeps aboard the International Space Station.

When a 10-year-old girl with cancer was too sick to see Up, Pixar flew an employee to her house with a DVD of the movie. She died seven hours after her private screening.

The F-word is used 265 times in the movie Pulp Fiction.

In the Stephen King novella for The Shawshank Redemption, Morgan Freeman's Red is described as a white Irishman. The script sees Red sarcastically quip, “Maybe it's cause I'm Irish” as a nod to the change.

Ian Mckellan and Patrick Stewart didn’t know how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.

William Goldman's original script title for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy. The names were reversed when Paul Newman took on the role of Butch.

In Saving Private Ryan, all of the main cast were given basic military training except Matt Damon, in the hope that the cast would build a resentment towards him necessary for the role.

The bridge blown up by Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was prematurely detonated by a Spanish Army Captain. Upon learning of his mistake the Captain ordered his troops to rebuild the bridge, only for it to suffer another explosion once complete.

Sean Connery wore a toupee in all of the James Bond movies because he started balding at age 21.

The name Mulan uses while disguised as a man – Fa Ping – is a pun on the Chinese term for “eye candy.”

Bruce Lee was so fast they actually had to run his films slower so you can see his moves.